Flayer Youngling
This pet can have the following breeds:
Breed
Health
Speed
Power
HS
1546
289
260
PB
1465
273
289
SB
1465
289
273
HB
1546
273
273
PS
1400
289
289
HP
1546
260
289
PP
1400
260
325
SS
1400
325
260
HH
1725
260
260
BB
1481
276
276
Works best if your Flayer Youngling is S/S Breed, but mostly works with the others as well.
Medium XP
Fast
This strategy has been built to be as fast as possible.
Long
The strategy takes a while. Sit back, get yourself a warm drink and relax the scenery.
RNG
Not every strategy can be bullet proof. This is one of them. You might have to restart it, since there are some random elements that increase the risk of your pets failing. Don't blame them, please!
Level 5+
You can use this strategy to carry a level 1 level pet to give it experience.
Tricky
Some instructions are more difficult to follow than others. That's exactly what you might find in this strategy!
TD Script
The strategy offers a TD script that can be used with the TD Script addon. You can copy the script by clicking on the button to the left of the pets.
Staff Pick
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SadPing
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This table shows the level increase for completing the fight with level 25 pets and one carry pet.
Partial level experience is not included in the calculation.
I swapped the flayer for dibbler, h/p (though I doubt breed matters), using toxic smoke, drill charge, explode.
On turn that swaps flayer, you bring in dibbler instead.
Turn 2 > drill charge
turn 3 > toxic smoke
turn 4 > explode.
That gives full xp to the carry pet, did it a few times on different characters and worked well. You can remove the swap in of the carry pet with this as well, though I havent figured out the exacts yet for a script to get going.
I used Fragment of Anger 1/1/2 and Widget the Departed 1/1/2, as I had to use two undead pets with my Snowfeather Hatchling :) Did not even have to use the Snowfeather Hatchling other than the first hit and then switching it out for the quest.
Took me a few tries but finally got it. I used a Hyjal Wisp as suggested by Jaconso since my Servant was green and a H/B Flayer. I did Sear Magic, Wish and then Arcane Blast until dead. I will say though that I tried bringing a lvl 6 white pet and that kept dying. A blue one didn't and got to 12 with just the hat on.
^ This script uses Triple Snap instead of Rampage on Scorpling/Flayer Youngling which is much more susceptible to RNG.
If you change the second-last row to ability(#3) it'll use Rampage.
Thanks for the tip Jag!
I had a P/S Flayer Youngling and it was RNG if it died or won... switching to a S/S Scorpling which I just happened to have made this go a lot better.
I needed 2 humanoids with the direbeak and couldn't get the other strat suggested here to work. I managed after many adjustments with Anubisath Idol 1,1,1 and Flayer Youngling 1,2,2 Direbeak 2,2,1. Started with crush then sandstorm to counteract the arcane storm. Time the deflect to come just before one of his big hits and refresh sandstorm when available. When anubisath dies bring in flayer youngling timing deflect to best effect, rampage when possible and blitz otherwise. I did need to bring my Direbeak in for one predatory strike to finish.
I'm 2/3 with this strategy Owl killed Servant of Demidos and it was downhill from there and Flayer was at 43 Health on last attempt so a crit away from another loss. I'll continue to use it until I have time to find a better leveling strat for this fight.
I'm 3/5 with this strategy. Flayer died on 4th and 5th try but on 5th my level 5 made the kill... which is luck more than strat. My Servant is Destruction and Flayer is Balance so not the recommended breed. I'll find a strat that works with what i got.
Direbeak Team Rumble Group that worked for me:
Wretched Servant 2-2-1
Flayer Youngling 2-2-2
Direbeak (didn't even use him but still got credit because he was on the team)
Round 1 Wild Magic
Round 2+ Nether Blast until the Owl is dead
After rat comes in Keep up wild magic and again Nether Blast until dead
then bring in Flayer Youngling and Rampage
You might be able to use weakness effectively with your servant but it didn't play out for me that way really because even under 50% the owl was still faster than my Servant (but the damage reduction did help).
Did a little more testing, definitely RNG prone based on how often the owl gets 3 quills, and the damage reduction of weakness definitely seems worth it for rounds when you know he'll quill...but this definitely can work.
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